It may seem pointless to award honors to a bunch of unreleased games, but the tradition at least offers an easy-to-digest E3 hype gauge. Nintendo's 3DS won Best Hardware and Best of Show, and based on our time with it, the awards are deserved. But since we love to play devil's advocate, we'll point out that the Wii won Best of Show in 2006, and you know how much we love it now...
A large number of Team Ninja employees are reported to have left Tecmo following Itagaki's walkout earlier this month, according to rumours.
It is reported that "as many as three dozen" Team Ninja employees have done a runner and, to make things worse for Tecmo, also plan to take the company to court over unpaid bonuses for completed games.
Things got nasty early this month when Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu
Tomonobu Itagaki, the developer behind some of the most difficult console games on Earth, wants you to know he’s sorry for all those times he kicked your ass. In an interview in the new issue of Edge Magazine (issue 218, on newsstands now), the creator of Dead or Alive and the newer Ninja Gaiden games acknowledged that some of his past work has been “too difficult,” and – more relevantly – that his 2012-bound shooter, Devil’s Third, won’t be as frustrating...
Above: Here’s Ryu in his non-playable
form for Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Ryu Hayabusa seems to be everywhere these days. Not only is he the star of next year’s Ninja Gaiden 3, he’s one of only two confirmed fighters for Dead or Alive 5, featured in the only footage we’ve seen of the game to date. And he just keeps expanding his influence as he’ll now be a playable character in the next Dynasty Warriors game, Musou Orochi 2...
After being teased as a "March 2012" release for months, Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei finally gave a a real date for the launch of Ninja Gaiden 3. And should you preorder it at Gamestop or Amazon, you'll get a demo for Dead or Alive 5. But there's a catch...
Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi says times have changed since the blood 'n' boobs days of his predecessor, Tomonobu Itagaki. Hayashi wants to lead a Team Ninja that's known for sophisticated, grown-up stories about ninjas and bare-knuckle fighting tournaments...
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